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The Dropout Nation Podcast: The Power of School Choice

On this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast, I explain how school choice helps children escape failure factories, spurs families to demand Parent Power and spur reform, and helps attack the pernicious effects of Zip Code Education practices that have denied high-quality education to all children — especially those from poor and minority backgrounds. It is time to expand choice, especially through new ways such as Parent Trigger laws.

You can listen to the Podcast at RiShawn Biddle’s radio page or download directly to your iPod, Zune, MP3 player, smartphone, Nook Color or Kindle.  Also, subscribe to the podcast series. It is also available on iTunes, Blubrry, the Education Podcast Network,  Zune Marketplace and PodBean. Also download to your phone with BlackBerry podcast software and Google Reader.

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  1. By More on Hess' and Petrilli's Argument Against Focusing on Achievement Gaps | Dropout Nation: Coverage of the Reform of American Public Education Edited by RiShawn Biddle on December 19, 2011 at 1:53 pm

    [...] step lies with expanding school choice. As I note in this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast, expanding school options allows families to actively shape their children’s learning, [...]

  2. By Why Traditional School Districts Shouldn't Be Authorizing Charter Schools: The Fulton County Example | Dropout Nation: Coverage of the Reform of American Public Education Edited by RiShawn Biddle on December 19, 2011 at 5:54 pm

    [...] the biggest obstacles to the expansion of charter schools and school choice that, as I point out in this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast, is critical to sustaining the reform of American public education: The fact that in many states, [...]

  3. By Best of Dropout Nation: Gwen Samuel on the Importance of Good Education Choices | Dropout Nation: Coverage of the Reform of American Public Education Edited by RiShawn Biddle on December 23, 2011 at 9:42 am

    [...] in L.A. — and filing lawsuits in order to demand reform. And, as I noted in this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast, it also means we must provide families with high-quality information that they can use to make [...]